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Joanne Lynn: The one crisis we can prevent

The aging of the Baby Boom generation promises to triple the number of Americans over age 80 -- a bulge demographers have seen coming for decades. Yet, according to Joanne Lynn, who studies elder care for the Altarum Institute, American families and the healthcare system have taken almost no steps to prepare for what is fixing to be a national crisis in caregiving.

For Agenda 2020, POLITICO visited Lynn in her office to learn how much strain younger Americans face as their elders age, and were surprised to learn that immigration could ease the crisis.